US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "System and method for alleviating lower back pain" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,804, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for alleviating lower back pain" was invented by Hana Ibrahim Alsobayel (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hend Suliman Alkhalifa (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Kholoud Abdullah Almufaireej (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving lower back pain including using a virtual reality (VR) or an augmented reality (AR) headset for performing exercises aimed at reducing lower back pain. A gyroscopic sensor can be placed on the user's lower back to collect movement data of the lower back while the user enga...